Central Station is a touching film featuring a retired teacher, Dora, who writes letters to illiterate people at Central Station in Rio de Janeiro. When I got home in the evening, I took pleasure in reading the faith with my old neighbors.
They send what they think is important, and the rest are shelved or thrown away. One day, Ruo Sue followed her mother to ask her to write a letter, because he missed his father, whom he had never met, and he did not expect that his mother was hit by a car when he left the station, and Ruo Sue became an orphan. Between Dora and him, a story unfolds.
This story was originally just Josue's father-seeking journey, but in the end, it also became Dora's own father-seeking journey.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > struggles on the brink of good and evil</h1>
It's a journey of the heart, with the complex twists and turns of human nature in between.
The conscience of man is not like a lotus flower, which always stands in a pavilion. The truth of human nature is good and bad, like a roe deer flower that climbs between good and evil, it is wobbly bent in reality. The human heart is sometimes unconditionally compassionate and sometimes smoked by lust.
Dora is such an ordinary person. Unexpectedly, she became the last person the child knew in the world. At first, Dora thought of saving him, and then she began to harm him. The guards at the station saw that the boy was helpless and colluded with Dora to sell him to human traffickers. Dora, who had come to live alone and had a meagre income, made a fool of herself into tricking the boy and sold him the next day.
Seeing him homeless felt pitiful, it was Dora; seeing commissions think of the dream TV, which was also Dora. But when the old neighbor became suspicious and warned her of the seriousness of what she had done, Dora lost sleep. At this time, she seemed to be struggling on the edge of good and evil.
In the movie, this section of the whip of conscience is presented very expressively. In the middle of the night, the white light that constantly flashed into the house and the rumbling of the car rolled, like a knife in the evil operating room. The next day, Dora had the audacity to break into the thief's cave alone, pulled the boy out, and then decided to send him back to his hometown.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > the spiritual journey of redemption</h1>
The journey was not smooth. The sensitive child scolded her for being a bad person, and later lost the money, and she took the only valuable watch on her body, so she arrived at her destination penniless. Who knew that Ruo Sue's father had long since moved away, leaving only an address. With a stomach full, no money, no car, I don't know how to do it next.
Dora filled her stomach with fire and scolded the boy. The boy ran away sadly, drowning in the sea of people of the night festival. Dora regretted it again, chased all the way, and finally passed out due to lack of strength.
When Dora woke up the next day, she found herself lying in Josue's arms, and the two looked at each other and smiled, feeling comforted. When the mountains and rivers were exhausted, the boy suddenly came up with a way. He shouted at the village market for the business of "writing letters on behalf of customers". The idea worked. The two earned enough money for the trip, ate and took pictures, and Josuet also intimately bought a dress for Dora. At this time, a wonderful transformation arose in Dora's mind, and she stopped tearing up the letter.
Dora's heart widened. She wrote carefully and listened patiently to every story like a family member. Dora paid her love for the child and endured all the hardships, at this time when she saw others, the emotion of self-pity and self-hatred disappeared, and her heart became soft and full of sympathy.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > Josoué reunited with his family</h1>
The film goes a little deeper from here to illustrate how Dora went from naïve to cold in the past.
At first, Dora and her old neighbor argue over whether Josuet's letter should be torn up. Dora believes that this is her mother using "son wants to see daddy" as an excuse, and the real plan is to repair the old. The old neighbors feel that the children cannot live without their fathers, and they should recognize the family reunion between father and son.
This foreshadowing at the beginning of the film, we later learned that this is Dora's life. Her life was not blessed. His mother died early, and many years later he met his alcoholic father for the last time, however, Josue was lucky.
He happened to meet two half-brothers. They received letters from their fathers, but unfortunately they were illiterate and did not dare to ask outsiders. When Dora read it, she realized that her father had gone to find Josue's mother, and she also told the two brothers that if her mother came home first and asked her to wait at home, he would go home to reunite. Dora looked at the two thick brothers, relieved, and decided to let Josuai stay.
Seeing the affection of the Josue family, seeing the letter of Josue's father, made Dora open her heart and forgive her father. She recalls her father's love for her and the good times she had as a child. Perhaps, her disappointment in her father, like her previous one for Josue's father, was just a misunderstanding. She changed into the dress josúé had bought her, put on lipstick, and decided that she wanted to live the rest of her life.
This time, she completed her self-redemption in other people's stories, forgiving herself and letting herself go.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > is good by nature</h1>
Mencius speaks of good and evil. Judging from the innate qualifications, people can do good, which is an instinctive tendency that precedes good and evil. As for those who do not do good, they cannot be blamed on his qualifications.
Mencius then enumerated the four natural thoughts of "concealment", "shame", "resignation", and "right and wrong", indicating that the nature of human beings who can be good exists. People are good, that is, they have the courage to love others, and the difference is only to what extent they can play, whether they can break free from fear and weakness.
Just like Dora looks at Josué pitifully, it is compassion, but then she abducts him and deceives him, and the old neighbor says that "everything should have a limit", and she wakes up again. The cuteness and pity of the child have always touched her kindness. Although this heart twists and turns, it is like lighting a flame, and the fire burns brighter and warmer, warming others and warming itself.
Brazil in the 1990s was still trapped by the economy. Illiteracy is everywhere, even in Rio de Janeiro, a metropolis with a population of nearly 10 million. The security is not good, the life is not worth it, and no one cares when the street attacks or is hit.
Like the guard at the station, when he saw the theft, he shot him on the spot. Watching helpless children fall into desperate situations, who can not be moved? But the help reached out is far beyond the reach of Heaven. There are children living on the streets, and the night in Rio de Janeiro is still cold. If a living little being had been brutally stolen and sold, the earth would not have fallen into the snow of June to pity him.
Brazil staged such a tragedy, and the heavens were only silent. However, people are different, people can be changed, like Dora changed Josue's fate. If the death of Sue's mother is of course unfortunate, but will this misfortune be aggravated and become a purgatory, or will it be compensated for by the goodness of others, is not it all decided in the thoughts of man?